unable to create VM on esxi 7.0

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I am creating a virtual machine using ansible. I received this error and do not know how to solve it. I am new student to both VMware and asnible. This is the error i received:

fatal: [localhost → localhost]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi API at vsecurity:443 : [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution”}

Pleae your help is appreciated. I do not use a vcenter

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You’re connecting to a host called ‘vsecurity’, but that doesn’t resolve to something.
At least not on the host you’re trying to run the playbook from.

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Okay…thank you. I think now i am having a different error of certifiate.

fatal: [localhost → localhost]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “Unable to connect to vCenter or ESXi API at vsecurity.com on TCP/443: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: certificate has expired (_ssl.c:1123)”}

I tried to secure copy the rui.crt from vmware esxi via ssh to the ansible control node but it fails all the time.

You’re connecting to a host called ‘vsecurity’, but that doesn’t resolve to something.
At least not on the host you’re trying to run the playbook from.

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Hi,

Please explain which module you are using when asking questions !

So have a guess that you are using this one

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.8/modules/vmware_guest_module.html#vmware-guest-module

So two options :

  • ask to update the certificate with a trusted and not expired one

  • use “validate_certs” option

Regards,

JYL

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Sure i will thanks. It is true, i am using the vmware_guest module where i ommited the validate certificate.
But now the problem has been with the dns.
when I test the management network, the hostname resolves to the dns, yet i ahve errors.

fatal: [localhost → localhost]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “msg”: “Unknown error while connecting to vCenter or ESXi API at vsecurity.localdomain:443 : [Errno -2] Name or service not known”}

Below is my commands…the control node is installed on the esxi

I am sorry to have been asking many questions.

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Well this still is a resolution error, so that needs to be fixed.
Either way it’s not an ansible problem.

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Thank you very much Jean for all the help so far…

Regards

Well this still is a resolution error, so that needs to be fixed.
Either way it’s not an ansible problem.